HIGHLIGHTS

ACTION ALERT May 2008:
Ban Cluster Munitions!

"Enhancing Capacity for Rapid and Effective Troop Deployment" by Kavitha Suthanthiraraj

"Bring on the Bricklayers without Borders" April 2008
Constructive debate on Peace in Iraq and role of UNEPS

by Stuart Rees; Centre for Peace and Conflict, Sydney, Australia

WORDS OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM RANDY FORSBERG'S FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES

Launch of the Ira D. Wallach Fund for the Eradication of Genocide
Global Action Consults with the GA on a Fourth Special Session on Disarmament.

"Calls Grow for Creation of Standing U.N. Army" by Marc Perelman in the Jewish Daily Forward

TAKE ACTION! Tell your US Representatives to support House Resolution 213 on UNEPS!

"It's time to end threat of nuclear war" by GAPW National Steering Committee member Bill Wickersham.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons:

 

 

Watch the 6 minute ICAN film
Sign the ICAN petition  
Get informed about nuclear dangers and solutions
Get involved. There are 10 things you can do today
Download Securing our Survival (SOS):  The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention

Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace An assessment of the report of the Hans Blix-led Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and its implications for U.S. policy.

U.S. House Resolution 213 on a United Nations Emergency Peace Service.

Final Report: Preventing Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Diverse Perspectives on a Standing, Rapid-Reaction UN Emergency Peace Service

"A United Nations for the 21st Century: From Reaction to Prevention," Dr. Detlev Wolter.

Chapter outline, introduction and commentary.

Chapter on Global Action and the UN Emergency Peace Service (UNEPS) Initiative!

GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT WAR is an emerging transnational network dedicated to practical measures for reducing global levels of conflict and to removing the institutional and ideological impediments to ending armed conflict and severe human rights violations.

OUR PROGRAM STATEMENT (a revised version will be uploaded shortly) grounds the goal of conflict prevention in specific integrated phases over a three to four-decade period and demonstrates in a practical and concrete way that we can move from an international system based on conflict and power relations to one based on law and multilateral institutions.

Download Our Global Action to Prevent War Program Statement:
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This reasonable timetable thoughtfully integrates action towards successive advances in early warning, prevention of armed conflict, nonviolent means of conflict resolution, peacekeeping and peacemaking, transparency and other confidence-building measures, disarmament, and the implementation of criminal law regarding genocide and crimes against humanity.

Global Action to Prevent War; Workshop on the Eradication of Armed Conflict
Australia, Brisbane
February 8-10th, 2008

For three days (and a fourth day of strategic planning) a group consisting of core GAPW/UNEPS affiliates and regional experts from Australia, New Zealand, Timor Leste and the Philippines came together to discuss key Global Action programs and initiatives. Conference participants through papers/presentations and discussions focused on three areas of concern towards achieving a world without war.

1. The need for robust conventional weapons reductions and an arms trade treaty
2. The need for nuclear disarmament undertaken alongside commitments to non-proliferation
3. The need for a standing, individually-recruited, rapid-deployment peacekeeping service that can reduce the costs and operational burdens of UN and regional operations that arrive on the scene too late to stop massive violence in its formative stages.
Click here for to read the full conference report

 

 

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